accessing site over https causes folder structure to be shown in browser, not application - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I have a rails 3 app running with following stack:
ubuntu lucid lynx, apache2, passenger hosted on Amazon EC2
When accessed over http, the pages load and the site has no problems at all.
Then i installed a valid SSL cert on the webserver. When i try to access the same url over https, and it looks like passenger is not being activated. instead, in the browser, the folder structure of the rails application is rendered.
What configuration changes or modifications do I need to make to Apache and/or Passenger so that the https URL returns the same thing as the corresponding http url?

Answer 1

You need something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName orders.xxx.com
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/ps-main/current/public"
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/orders common
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://orders.xxx.com%{REQUEST_URI}
NameVirtualHost *:443
RailsEnv production
<Directory /var/www/html/ps-main>
AllowOverride all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLEngine on
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/orders common
ServerAdmin webmaster#xxx.com.com
ServerName orders.xxx.com
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/cert.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/server.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/ssl/intermediate.pem
# SSLProtocol all
SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ps-main/current/public
<Directory /var/www/html/ps-main/current/public>
Options -MultiViews
AllowOverride all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This will redirect all http traffic to https. If that's not what you need, remove the redirects.